The Indian YouTube channel with 6 billion views

Keeping children entertained can be a difficult job, but one company based in India is taking on that very task. YouTube channel ChuChu TV animates and reversions traditional nursery rhymes.And with more than five million subscribers the channel has become hugely popular, not just in India ...

....”. In recent years Sky has poured billions of pounds into building a wider offering, such as deals with Game of Thrones maker HBO and making increasing numbers of original shows such as Riviera, which has reduced the proportion of sport subscribers from 80% to less than 50% of its 12 million-strong customer base. ...

....However, digital subscriptions at the Australian mastheads are growing steadily from 225,600 in 2014-15 to 271,000 in 2015-16 to 363,000 this financial year. Elsewhere, the Times and the Sunday Times now have a digital-only subscription base of 201,000 and the Wall Street Journal has moved past one million paid subscribers to 1,270,000. ...

.... However, Kingsman and Kick-Ass are licensed to other producers. Netflix releases films in cinemas but its main business is streaming content to subscribers so it referred to TV series and kids’ shows as well as films. ...

....Millar is also a creative consultant to 20th Century Fox, the film arm of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, which has made films including the X-Men and Deadpool franchises. Last month, Netflix, which has a market capitalisation of almost $80bn, passed the 100 million global subscriber mark. ...

.... The decline was mostly due to a one-time rise in the cost of its Premier League rights deal of £629m. It said that in the UK and Ireland – its most important market, accounting for almost 90% of profits – it added 280,000 new customers in the year to the end of June, with 111,000 subscribers taking its TV services. ...

....”. Netflix, the world’s biggest streaming service, with more than 100 million subscribers, offers fewer titles to download, although most of its Originals series – including The Crown, Narcos, Orange is the New Black and Stranger Things – are available. ...

....Griffith said he had not seen a “significant shift” in ad spend from Google or Facebook into TV following widespread concerns about ads running online next to inappropriate content such as extremist material and fake news. Asked about the threat of Netflix, which last week announced strong growth breaking the 100 million global subscriber mark, Bazalgette classified it as a “frenemy”. ...

....Thus: much is being made of comparisons between the Corbyn/McDonnell Labour party and the 1983 Labour manifesto, the notorious “longest suicide note in history”, which included a commitment to leave the EEC. Strangely enough, among the paid-up subscribers to that manifesto were the then leader, Foot, Neil Kinnock and Jeremy Corbyn. ...

....The team then set up W Chump & Sons – a combination of their names – which has filed accounts providing the first insight into the lucrative deal. The first series of the Grand Tour, which smashed Amazon video viewing and TV subscriber sign-up records, ran for 13 episodes from November to February. ...

....But then Variety magazine noticed something odd: The photograph of Jay-Z receiving his platinum award was taken before 4:44 was released. How could the RIAA be so sure he'd pass the sales barrier? Well, it turns out that Jay-Z had done a deal with mobile company Sprint (a major shareholder in his streaming company Tidal), who gave away copies of the album to their subscribers. ...

....Telecoms regulator Ofcom, which publishes complaints data every three months, also found BT to be the most criticised pay-TV company, with almost four times the industry average complaint level. BT received 34 complaints per 100,000 subscribers about its broadband service in the first quarter, well ahead of the UK industry average of 21. ...

.... A new channel, Sky Sports Arena, will host other content including rugby and tennis. A key part of the strategy is that it will let Sky entice new pay-TV subscribers reluctant to fork out up to £49. ...

.... However, cynics also pointed out that the timing happened to coincide with an album launch by rival Katy Perry, with whom she has had an acrimonious and public feud going back five years. Swift is one of the few superstars with a big enough fan base to have been able to boycott Spotify, which has over 50m paying subscribers and 100m users in total worldwide, without damaging their brand or overall sales. ...

.... Spotify, the leading music streaming service, is hoping to change that with a share sale that could lead another round of “unicorns” to try their luck on the US stock markets. Founded 11 years ago in Sweden by Daniel Ek, 34, Spotify currently has more than 100 million monthly active users, of whom 50 million are paying subscribers. ...

.... Expect other industry figures to begin taking sides soon. War Machine will be given a limited, Oscar-qualifying theatrical release in the US and UK, but the big premiere will take place this week on the laptops and in the living rooms of Netflix’s 100m-strong subscriber base. ...

.... Customers felt part of something, free from the cut-throat corporate economics of brands such as Gillette, which is owned by Procter & Gamble. It soon had more than three million subscribers, and in 2016 Unilever, P&G’s big rival, bought the Dollar Shave Club – and its members – for $1bn. ...

....3bn for the year to the end of March. BT’s TV operation, which includes Premier League and Champions League coverage, signed up just 11,000 new subscribers in the three months to the end of March. ...

....The US digital giant is using live gigs, which industry body UK Music says are worth about £1bn a year to the economy, as the latest sweetener to attract customers to its Amazon Prime subscription service. The company is putting on gigs featuring major artists in smaller, intimate locations for subscribers, who pay £79 a year or £7. ...

....Thomas Husson at the tech research group Forrestersays Netflix has far to go. “Not only have they reached 100m subscribers, they have managed to create a digital relationship with their customers. ...

....In its early years, streaming was derided by many musicians and observers as the final nail in the industry’s coffin. However, with 112 million paying subscribers to services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal, which ensured growth in streaming revenue went up by more than 60% last year, it has now been hailed as the saviour of music. ...

...."This is the golden age of TV, or maybe the second golden age of TV, and one of the reasons for that is the amount of money being put to work in terms of high-end drama and high-end production by the likes of Sky," he said. "If you go back 10 or 15 years, a lot of Sky's business model, certainly in the UK, was based around paying up for the footie and hoping to draw in subscribers on that basis. ...

....Universal artists would gain greater flexibility, said Spotify. "Starting today, Universal artists can choose to release new albums on Premium only for two weeks, offering subscribers an earlier chance to explore the complete creative work, while the singles are available across Spotify for all our listeners to enjoy," said Daniel Ek, chairman and chief executive of Spotify. ...

....”. Analysts at Exane predict that cutting the charges will cost BT £45m in 2018, rising to potentially as much as £244m by 2021, in a “worst case scenario” if at that time there are nearly 7 million non-BT subscribers on the 40Mb service. ...